Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Travel back in time to ancient Pompeii with "The Last Days of Pompeii" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a captivating and thrilling historical novel. Immerse yourself in a tale of love, intrigue, and tragedy at the heart of a city on the verge of being buried by the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
In this enchanting narrative, you will meet Nydia, a blind slave with a tragic fate, Glaucus, a Roman nobleman, and Ione, a priestess of Isis. Their lives...
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"The Haunted And The Haunters" is a 1859 novel by Edward Bulwer Lytton. It is a horror story that deals with supernatural themes, not to be missed by lovers of frightening fiction. Lytton also wrote "A Strange Story" (1862), a book that had a significant influence on Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
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A Strange Story' is an extraordinary testament to the belief in and fascination with the Occult and spiritualism that was prevalent in nineteenth century society, and reflects Bulwer Lytton's own particular views. The young hero, Doctor Allen Fenwick, is utterly unable to counteract the malign influence of the sinister mesmerist Margrave over his beloved, the mystical Lilian, by scientific methods - will this lead him to put aside his rationalist...
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The fascinating Victorian-era science fiction novel about a subterranean society.
The story of the Vril-ya-a superior race of telepathic beings who dwell beneath Earth's surface and are accidentally discovered by a young man exploring a mine shaft-was written by English writer and politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Bulwer-Lytton has been dismissed by many literary critics (a "bad writing" competition has even been named for him), yet he enjoyed major...
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Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection-The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate. An ancient manuscript and hidden occult powers all tangled into a love story,...
6) Zanoni
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In two novels, Zanoni (1842) and A Strange Story (1862), Bulwer-Lytton invented the Occult/Dark Fantasy subgenre (as opposed to other subgenres of fantasy like Tolkienian High Fantasy). Academic critics usually describe Zanoni as a künstlerroman (novel of the maturation of an artist) and as an allegory of Science versus Art, but Zanoni is also the first modern British work of occult fantasy. Charles Dickens took the ending of A Tale of Two Cities...
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The celebrated name which forms the title to this work will sufficiently apprise the reader that it is in the earlier half of the fourteenth century that my story opens. It was on a summer evening that two youths might be seen walking beside the banks of the Tiber, not far from that part of its winding course, which sweeps by the base of Mount Aventine. The path they had selected was remote and tranquil. It was only at a distance that were seen the...
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It was the summer of the year 1491, and the armies of Ferdinand and Isabel invested the city of Granada. The night was not far advanced; and the moon, which broke through the transparent air of Andalusia, shone calmly over the immense and murmuring encampment of the Spanish foe, and touched with a hazy light the snow-capped summits of the Sierra Nevada, contrasting the verdure and luxuriance, which no devastation of man could utterly sweep from the...
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Published in 1838, "Alice, or The Mysteries" picks up the story of the disenchanted poet-gone-politician-gone-recluse Ernest Maltravers, his early love Alice Darvil and his underhanded antagonist Lumley Ferrers. Whereas, after Florence Lascelles's death, Ernest has withdrawn from the world, everything seems to go well with Lumley, who has inherited the title of Lord Vargrave and started a political career. There is only the want of a fortune with...
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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Edward Bulwer Lytton:
• Alice, or The Mysteries
• Athens: Its Rise and Fall
• Calderon The Courtier
• The Caxtons
• The Coming Race
• Devereux
• The Disowned
• Ernest Maltravers
• Eugene Aram
• Falkland
• The Fallen Star
• Godolphin
• Harold, The Last Of The Saxon Kings
• Haunted and the Haunters
• Kenelm Chillingly
• The Lady of Lyons
• The Last Days of Pompeii
•...
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction. Bulwer-Lytton's literary works were highly popular and bestselling novels at the time.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
The Pilgrims of the Rhine
Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes
Falkland
Pelham
The Disowned
Devereux
Paul Clifford
Eugene Aram
Godolphin
Asmodeus...
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Voyagez dans le temps jusqu'à l'ancienne Pompéi avec "Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi" d'Edward Bulwer-Lytton, un roman historique captivant et palpitant. Plongez dans une histoire d'amour, d'intrigue et de tragédie au cœur d'une ville sur le point d'être ensevelie par l'éruption dévastatrice du Vésuve. Dans ce récit envoûtant, vous rencontrerez Nydia, une esclave aveugle au destin tragique, Glaucus, un noble romain, et Ione, une prêtresse...
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Excerpt: "The rich moonlight that now shone through the windows streamed on little that it could invest with poetical attraction. The room was small, though not squalid in its character and appliances. The bed-curtains, of a dull chintz, were drawn back, and showed the form of a man, past middle age, propped by pillows, and bearing on his countenance the marks of approaching death. But what a countenance it still was! The broad, pale, lofty brow;...
14) Falkland
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction. Bulwer-Lytton's literary works were highly popular and bestselling novels at the time.
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"You are mistaken, my dear Monkton! Your description of the gaiety of "the season" gives me no emotion. You speak of pleasure, I remember no labour so wearisome,...
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In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree drinking their sherbet and listening, in the intervals of conversation, to the music which enlivened that gay and favorite resort of an indolent population. One of this little party was a young Englishman who had been the life of the whole group, but who for the last few moments had sunk into a gloomy and abstracted revery. One of...
16) The Musician
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Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection-The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate. An ancient manuscript and hidden occult powers all tangled into a love story,...
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"The Last Days of Pompeii" - Pompeii, A.D. 79. Athenian nobleman Glaucus arrives in the bustling and gaudy Roman town and quickly falls in love with the beautiful Greek Ione. Ione's former guardian, the malevolent Egyptian sorcerer Arbaces, has designs on Ione and sets out to destroy their budding happiness. But will he succeed in his evil plot? Or, will the cataclysmic destruction of the city by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius be the end of all? And,...
18) Pelham Complete
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Ou peut-on etre mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?-French Song.[Where can one be better than in the bosom of one's family?] I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother the dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer. Mr. Pelham was a moderate whig, and gave sumptuous dinners; Lady Frances was a woman of taste, and particularly fond of diamonds and old china.
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"Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes" — Bulwer-Lytton has created a true masterpiece that inspired none other than the great Wagner to create his opera titled "Rienzi." Set during the Italian Renaissance period, in the 14th century, the story depicts the rise and fall of Rienzi, the beloved last Tribune of Rome and his lovely wife Nina. Intrigue dog this great man at every stage and backstabbers are always around the corner, but Reinzi towers above...
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"Ernest Maltravers" — Tricked into spending a night at the house of a local hoodlum named Danver, our hero has a lucky escape when Alice, the daughter of the evil Danvers betrays her father. Punished for her betrayal, Ernest takes Alice under his wings and the two gradually fall in love. But Danvers is furious and kidnaps Alice from her new hiding place. Will Ernest and Alice ever meet?
"Alice or the Mysteries" — The story continues from the...
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